Vinetto 0.07 beta released Added utf8 support and symlinks from real filenames to numbered filenames. Thanks to Kfir Lavi for these patches.

12 may 2006:

Test of Vinetto by Jean-François Beckers This
article describes a test in which a Thumbs.db file was created and examined by Vinetto.
It comes with an example of output report.

8 may 2006:

Vinetto 0.06 alpha released Fixed issue related to missing entries in the Catalog :
A thumbnail that have no corresponding entry in the Catalog didn't show in the html report.

25 apr 2006:

Vinetto 0.05 alpha released Fixed bug in filename of extracted thumbnails.
This bug occured when the order of extraction differs from ther order in the Catalog.
This bug prevented correct mapping of filename to index number.
This bug was discovered following a very relevant question of farmerdude. Thanks :)

1 - Context : The Windows systems (98, ME, 2000, XP and 2003 Server) can
store thumbnails and metadata of the picture files contained in the
directories of its FAT32 or NTFS filesystems.
The thumbnails and associated metadata are stored in Thumbs.db files.
The Thumbs.db files are undocumented OLE structured files.

Once a picture file has been deleted from the filesystem, the
related thumbnail and associated metada remain stored in the Thumbs.db
file. So, the data contained in those thumbs.db files are an helpful
source of information for the forensics investigator.

2 - What the software is intended to do : Vinetto extracts the thumbnails and associated metadata from the Thumbs.db
files.

Moreover [when vinetto will be 0.98 beta] it runs according to three modes:
-> elementary mode : in this mode vinetto extracts thumbnails and metadata from a chosen Thumbs.db file.
-> directory mode : in this mode vinetto checks for
consistency between the content of the directory and the related Thumbs.db file i.e.
it will report the thumbnails that are not associated to a file into the
directory.
-> filesystem mode : in this mode vinetto will process the whole FAT or NTFS partition.

1 - Windows(R)(TM) stores thumbnails in its Thumbs.db files according to various formats (see docs page).
At present, vinetto does not produce an excellent reconstruction of Type 1a thumbnails.
-> If you have some hints or experience with proprietary JPEG-based formats and would like to help,
please don't hesitate to mail to rukin at users dot sourceforge dot net. Thanks a lot.

Please note : vinetto is currently distributed as an alpha version. That means it is mainly released
for testing or experimenting purposes. It can be helpful during the computer investigation process,
but its results must be confirmed with results from other tools/methods.

options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o DIR write thumbnails to DIR
-H write html report to DIR
-U use utf8 encodings
-s create symlink of the image realname to the numbered name in
DIR/.thumbs